When Saito Tomoharu tweeted his idea for G/W Enchantress control/pillow-fort for Journey into Nyx Standard, I was immediately hooked. Not only is "control" not something that G/W had been doing heavily in standard (short of Bant control/Superfriends, which is really the U/W control shell with green splashed), but it looked good against Aggro (which my LGS is full of) and made GREAT use of Eidolon of Blossoms which is easily my favorite cards in Nyx. I built it, ran it, made some modifications for my Meta... (decklist:http://deckbox.org/sets/688985) and was only marginally successful. I could fairly easily lock the board down with O-rays, B-Light and Sphere of Safety, and had card advantage to the point that I had to be careful about how many enchantments I cast so I didn't deck myself! But I was having a hard time sealing the deal and actually turning the control into a win. There were a lot of games where I simply had to keep building until I could swing with EVERYBODY for lethal. And more than once my matchup went to time and was forced into a draw/loss. I needed something more and for the life of me could not figure out what G/W could give me to make the deck WIN rather than simply stall.

I had the thought "it would be great if there was a 'deal damage' constellation trigger!" And of course... there is: Forgeborn Oread. "Naya it is!!" I thought, and started looking for other obvious choices in Red for the deck. Purphoros, God of the Forge looks good; with 19 other creatures in the deck, and me casting two or three spells per turn (not to mention Elspeth's soldiers), his trigger should happen often enough to get 6 or more damage in, and his activated ability can get me to lethal alpha strike faster. Assemble the Legion is great with Purphoros, Elspeth's Emblem, and blocking if somebody manages to pay for Sphere of Safety. Boros Charm finds it's way into the sideboard as the easiest way to make EVERYTHING I have casted indestructible.

Consider this situation: On board are Purphoros, a Forgeborn, Blossoms, Primeval Bounty, Sphere of Safety and probably a few others... Cast a Ram and get: a 3/3 beast token, 4 damage from Purphoros, 1 damage from Forgeborn, a card draw from Blossoms, and of course a tick up on Sphere of Safety... all for 2 mana!! Seems good I think... Or have Heliod out and use his activated to make a Cleric to trigger Purphoros and Forgeborn and Blossoms etc etc

I'd be interested in hearing what y'all think. Has anybody else tried the G/W enchantress list with similar moderated results to mine? Has anoybody else taken this list to Naya, and if so how'd it go? Did I miss any obvious inclusions or have any dead cards in the current list? I'd definitely appreciate any feedback. Cheers!

*Considering 3 or 4 Negate in the sideboard for Sphinx's Rev, Supreme Verdict, and Cyclonic Rift. This will probably mean 3 or 4 blue scry lands and at least 3 Mana Confluence.

Honestly, I think Negate is a better sideboard card than Dispel or Swan Song because it can counter a Planeswalker too which the other spells can't do. Countering Elsepth or Domri ain't bad. Most control players will leave mana open to counter your attempt at countering Elspeth, but maybe they won't expect you to sideboard it in? One can hope.

I don't think Soul Tithe works here. I'm trying to have as many enchantments in play as possible to power up Sphere of Safety, and this gives my opponent the option of not paying the "upkeep" thus reducing my SS count by 1, and then potentially having the mana to pay to swing with another, un-tithed creature. Oppressive rays has been quite successful in stalling the quick decks in my local meta, giving me a little more breathing room to set up my card engine or Sphere of Safety. I've had many people suggest that I cut it, but it's been way too successful in this deck for my meta.

I'll have to think about the Primeval Bounty count. In the previous G/W form it was definitely a big part of me finishing the game. However with the addition of Forgeborn and Purphoros... well the synergy with Purphoros is still good but perhaps I am better served with a 4th Forgeborn or Banishing Light.